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Daniel J. Boorstin has 88 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has…
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting…
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An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality…
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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
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A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by…
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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
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The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
— Joseph Addison
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Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing…
— Augustus Toplady
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Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
— Jonathan Kozol
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God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer.
— Beth Moore
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I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution…
— Arne Jacobsen
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We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
— Robert E. Lee
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In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who…
— Marguerite Blessington
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